Location

Please join us for an examination of trauma in students using the 2013 Minnesota Student Survey and the impacts on health and behaviors. Findings will be presented on youth in mainstream schools, alternative learning centers, and juvenile correctional facilities.

Presenter: Danette Buskovick, Director, Training, Research and Communication,
Dept. of Public Safety Office of Justice Programs

Agenda

9:30am - 12pm. A more detailed agenda will be posted at a later date.

08-08-2014 -

SVPN Meeting: Minnesota's Anti-Bullying Legislation: What we all Need to Know

Location

Join us for a panel presentation on Minnesota’s recently passed anti-bullying legislation…

“This legislation is intended to prevent bullying by a student to facilitate a safe and conducive educational environment for all students, ameliorate the effects of bullying and teach students the boundaries of socially appropriate behavior.”

Panelists will talk about the policy, its intentions and requirements, and will discuss what this means for sexual violence prevention in schools and implications for sexual and domestic violence program work.

Location

With an estimated 16 million users under the age of 18, it is impossible to deny that the Internet has changed the social life of youth. The Internet has influenced what youth know, and the way they think, feel, and behave. Clearly, the Internet has had a significant, positive impact in the lives of youth, but there is a dark side that we cannot deny. Pornography, gambling, sexual harassment, sex offenders, and online bullying; these are just a few of the issues youth face when they access the Internet.

This presentation will review the latest research related to youth and their online behavior. Particular attention will be paid to the sexual aspects of the Internet that influence youth in the online world. The presentation will also discuss what youth need to know to maintain emotional health in an electronic world and how adults can be involved in this process.

Presenter: Elizabeth Griffen

Elizabeth Griffin is a licensed Marriage and Family Therapist with over twenty - nine years experience assessing and treating adolescents and adults who struggle with sexual issues. Ms. Griffin lectures and consults nationally on the assessment and treatment of problematic online sexual behaviors, sexually compulsive behaviors, and sexual offending behaviors. She also lectures on Internet safety issues to a variety of audiences including youth. Ms. Griffin has published numerous academic articles on issues related to problematic sexual behavior both offline and online. She has also co-authored several books and workbooks including In the Shadows of the Net: Breaking Free of Compulsive Online Sexual Behavior, Cybersex Unhooked, Cybersex Unplugged, and Illegal Images: Critical Issues and Strategies for Addressing Child Pornography Use.

Location

With the legislature starting at the end of February, now is a great time to build your confidence and skills for educating/talking with your legislators about the issues that matter to you. We know that the Civil Commitment Task Force recommendations will be on their agenda but what can we do to ensure that sexual violence prevention is on their agenda too?

We’ll start our presentation with an overview of the legislative process and quickly move into talking about how to create effective messages. Then, we’ll work in small groups to practice delivering our messages. You’ll leave this session with confidence and skills to use your personal stories to advance policies at the legislature...and at the community/organizational level as well.

Presenter: Amy Brugh, Amy Brugh Consulting
Amy Brugh is a nonprofit consultant specializing in planning, facilitation and project management, with a particular focus in advocacy and public health. Previously she was the Director of External Relations at the Minnesota AIDS Project, where she was charged with advancing the fundraising, communications, public policy and volunteer programs, and the Public Affairs Director for Planned Parenthood of Minnesota, North Dakota, South Dakota, where she lobbied elected officials and conducted grassroots legislative and electoral campaigns.
Amy currently serves on the board of directors of the Minneapolis Bicycle Coalition, the Minnesota Council of Nonprofits, and MCN’s subsidiary organization, Nonprofit Insurance Advisors. She holds a Master’s degree in Community Health Education from the University of Minnesota School of Public Health.

Location

The Sexual Violence Prevention Network meeting will feature a dialog with:
Eric Janus, Dean of William Mitchell School of Law
Jeanne Ronayne, Director of Victim Services of Dodge Fillmore and Olmsted Counties
and Haley Fox, Clinical Director of the MN Sex Offender Program
We will explore how effective, reasoned and evidence based approaches to the management and treatment of those who have committed sex offenses blends with emerging conversations about preventing the perpetration of sexual violence. We want to support thoughtful, respectful and productive public discourse that ultimately may help us prevent child sexual abuse and sexual violence.

Location (note location change for this meeting):

William Mitchell College of Law, 875 Summit Avenue, St. Paul, William Mitchell (Kelley Board Room)

Location

Learn about the partnership model used by the Ramsey County Attorney's office and the Midwest Children's Resource Center whereby high risk runaway youth are referred for intensive health assessments. We will review assessment data from our program and discuss different pathways and opportunities for intervening with runaway youth. We will provide two case studies about intervening with runaway, sexually abused youth.

Location

Using recent public child sexual abuse allegations in youth sports and youth serving organizations as the backdrop, Yvonne Cournoyer, Sexual Violence Prevention Coordinator at the Minnesota Coalition Against Sexual Assault (MNCASA), will lead a discussion of what needs to change to create safe environments for children.

Yvonne will provide a brief case study of recent “scandals” to illustrate the gaps in current practice that allow sexual abuse to occur at such alarming rates. Yvonne will discuss that effecting the changes that will prevent children from ever experiencing sexual harm in these settings will require social change at all levels of society—from individuals to institutions. You will leave with knowledge and tools you can use in your own life and to work with parents and youth serving organizations to proactively prevent child sexual abuse.

Location

Join us for an exciting presentation by Bob Filipczak: Marketing Safety Across the Generations. Bob Filipczak is Social Media Coordinator for MnDOT and the co-author of Generations at Work, published in 1999 and republished in 2012. He has been studying the different generations since about 1994 when he wrote a ground breaking article about Generation X for Training Magazine. Since initially studying the Boomers, Gen Xers, and Gen Yers, he has been neck-deep in studying the next generation of young people¿the Millennials. His presentation is entertaining, utilizes many ads and marketing campaigns and is amazingly insightful in terms of addressing the question: Are we messaging to the people we are trying to reach?

Julia Johnsen from the U of M Center for Leadership Education in Maternal and Child Health will lead the discussion and brainstorming following Bob¿s Presentation. We encourage you to physically attend this SVPN meeting if possible (rather than livestream) to participate in what is sure to be a lively discussion! (note new meeting location)

Agenda

Location

Snelling Office Park, Mississippi Room

Single stories often get in the way of collective action but stories based on solutions can help us put a face to the facts and tap into people's hearts in order to take meaningful action for substantive change. This SVPN meeting will provide tools and dialogue around three types of stories you can use in your work to build community, engage participants, and help others to see their role in prevention. Be prepared for active involvement, to get up and move, not only to listen!

Location

Do you want to know more about Adverse Childhood Experiences and how they relate to the work of home visiting nurses/professionals? Are you a home visiting nurse/professional who is interested in prevention and intervention related to sensitive issues such as sexual abuse and violence?

Presenter: Dr. David McCollum

As a former physician and co-founder of the Academy on Violence and Abuse, Dr. McCollum has been a primary voice in Minnesota calling for more attention to Adverse Childhood Experiences and their associated effects on health over the lifespan. He has over 3 decades of experience talking to patients about ACEs as well as training health professionals on the issue.

You are invited to explore a new model to engage spiritual communities in preventing child sexual exploitation and abuse:

a Spiritual Communities Prevention Tree.

You will experience how the model works, how it was used in three test communities,

and how a spiritual community – yours or others with which you work – can make use of it.

Presenters:

Libby Bergman, Executive Director of the Family Enhancement Center, Minneapolis

and

Amy Hartman, National Director of Cherish Our Children, Minneapolis.

Libby and Amy served as co-chairs for the Spiritual Communities Action Team

in connection with the MDH Sexual Violence Prevention 5-year State Plan

Location

What does preventing adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) - including child sexual abuse - have to do with preventing diabetes, heart disease, obesity, early pregnancy, substance use, or improving education outcomes? Everything! We all have a pivotal role in promoting the conditions necessary to achieve the health and well-being we seek for our communities - no matter where you work in public health, policy, advocacy, education, social services. This SVPN meeting will provide you with an overview of the Adverse Childhood Experiences study, how its findings have been used to craft policies and advocacy messages, and the implications for sexual violence prevention work. We will describe the ways in which how we frame the story of child sexual abuse prevention - as advocates, policy makers, researchers, and practitioners - shapes our ability to achieve the change we are demanding. We will also explore how the ACE study has been used to create new frames that support our prevention efforts. We will also highlight how Minnesota is planning to collect and use ACE data - and how that data will be available to you and your organization.

Presenters/Panel:

- Julia Johnsen, MPH, Director of Community Outreach, Center for Leadership Education in Maternal and Child Public Health, Division of Epidemiology & Community Health, University of Minnesota, School of Public Health www.epi.umn.edu/mch

Due to the uncertainty of a state government shutdown, the August 12, 2011 SVPN meeting/presentation has been cancelled. We plan to resume our SVPN quarterly meeting schedule once the state budget issues have been resolved, with our next SVPN meeting on November 4, 2011.

05-13-2011 -

Demand the Change, Change of Heart

Location

This SVPN presentation will provide participants an opportunity to learn more about Demand the Change, Change of Heart.

This is a MNCASA prevention initiative designed to mobilize communities and engage broader audiences in actions they can take to make social change. Through previous roundtables and the MN Summit to Prevent Sexual Violence, MNCASA learned the importance of having an answer to the often asked question of What is the IT? What is it that I/we can do to prevent sexual violence?

While there is not one simple action nor answer to such questions, people, organizations and communities are able to Demand the Change when they see and hear practices they find offensive or believe feed the demand to treat children, young people and women as sexual objects or commodities that they are entitled to abuse, exploit and violate whether for individual or commercial gain.

Learn about how you can use this campaign and also use the power of stories to focus on solutions and successful action.

Hear more Sexual Assault Awareness Month (SAAM) efforts related to this initiative and other tools available to help you advance your prevention efforts.

Seeking Common Ground: Exploring the Role of Sexuality Education in Sexual Violence Prevention

Location

Snelling Office Park, 1645 Energy Park Drive, St. Paul, MN

Preventing sexual violence requires multiple strategies. Creating sexually healthy environments for our children and youth means ensuring that they have the best and most reliable information about healthy sexuality. For several years in Minnesota, policy has been proposed to enhance the education that happens in public schools regarding sexuality, sexual health, and pregnancy prevention. This year, for the first time, the proposed policy language referred to sexual violence prevention as a goal of effective comprehensive sexual health education. Research evidence suggests that parents want their children to have good sexuality information and that a comprehensive approach is responsible and respectful of youth.

This panel presentation highlights Dr. Marla Eisenberg, Assistant Professor of Pediatrics in the Division of Adolescent Health and Medicine at the University of Minnesota. Dr. Eisenberg will be joined by Lorie Alveshare, Policy Director at MOAPPP, Frederick Ndip, Planned Parenthood, and Anna Schmitz, Planned Parenthood Teen Council. MDH and MNCASA staff will also participate in the panel discussion.

The goal of the presentation is to give participants the language to engage in productive conversation about the role of sexuality education in preventing sexual violence.

Location

Sexual assault and abuse can have serious mental health consequences for women and children. Understanding the range of potential mental health needs of survivors and how to address them within an empowerment-based framework is an important part of providing services for survivors that enhance their safety and well-being.

This presentation will provide an overview of current research on mental health, violence, and abuse and will offer steps that advocates and other professionals can take within their agencies and organizations to address mental health issues in sensitive, appropriate, and empowering ways.

Location

University Lutheran Church of the Epiphany
390 4th Avenue S
St. Cloud, MN

Cordelia Anderson
Sensibilities, Inc.

Beth Olson
PAVSA

02-06-2004 -

The Role that Housing Plays in Prevention

Location

MDH Snelling Office Park
St. Paul, MN

Robin Goldman
MN Dept of Corrections

11-07-2003 -

Prevention of Sexual Misconduct:
Some hard learning from faith communities.

Location

Country Kitchen
Alexandria, MN

Fr. Roman Paur

08-01-2003 -

Rape is More than a Crime:
Public Health Surveillance of Sexual Violence in Minnesota, 1999-2001 and Attitudes, Beliefs, and Actions Taken Relating to Child Sexual Abuse in the 7-County Twin Cities Metro Area of MN
(Random Digital Dial Survey Results)

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